Yes, I think physics is a dead end. I think they know that. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:58 PM, B Soroud <bsor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John M.... when I read your writing.... I see how it is wise, in the > tradition of Nagarjuna.... to make no assertions at all.... otherwise you > get caught up in the contradictions, internal inconcistencies, ironies, and > absurdities your writing shows above. > > I think Bruno is right to critique absolute materialism..... it just > occurred to me today that the concept of materialism is ultimately > self-contradictory, logically impossible, and when you get right down to it: > absurd. I think it is on the wrong track. > > what the right track is i don't know. > > I think Bruno is right, we are following in Aristotle's footsteps. > > We are looking for a universal implicit in the complexity of the > particulars.... we are trying to reduce the complexity of things to a > universal simplex/material substratum that somehow is a "material' ground > that is either acausal or we-don't-know-what... Berkeley famously showed > that the concept of "materialism" is a highly/overly abstract > generalization. And in our reductionism we effectively dematerialize or > metaphysicalize or transcendentalize our notions of matter, solidity, > substantiality, space, thingness, identity of "things". etc. > > what is matter? I mean what > is it really, even just definitionally. > > i think our notion of the origination (from "nothing") and the evolution of > matter from some "fundamental materiality" and elementary mechanical state > of affairs or something is nonsensical, unprovable, and when attempted to be > conceived.... comes off as ridiculous. > > I am starting to see a value in a Monadology-ish kind of thing.... the > problem is, how would one prove it or "experience" it? > > I am having a hard time expressing my thoughts right now. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
